Linux Stories for 2015

List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Mesa's Highlights Reel: An Impressive Year For Open Source 3-D Drivers 27
APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost 162
Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion 165
Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier 32
Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years 116
Wine 1.8 Released 119
Street Fighter V Announced For Linux and SteamOS 126
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
IBM and Linux Foundation To Create Blockchain For Major Financial Institutions 99
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux 144
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. 200
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
$5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer 99
Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released 109
Canonical Patches Two Kernel Vulnerabilities In Ubuntu 14.04 33
Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux 175
Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop 207
C.H.I.P. vs Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better? 122
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS 101
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) 112
Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring 46
Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support 67
SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows 184
Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released 78
Harnessing Conflict in the Workplace (video) 93
Ransomware Found Targeting Linux Servers, MySQL, Git, Other Development Files 93
Steam Has Brought 1,600 Games To Linux In the Past Three Years 110
Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security 291
OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released 31
Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure 130
Fedora 23 Released 57
Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo 101
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux 103
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? 102
22-Way SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison: NVIDIA Wins Across the Board 98
Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released 191
Intel Develops Linux 'Software GPU' That's ~29-51x Faster 111
Report: Red Hat Buying DevOps Startup Ansible 78
Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux 119
KDE Turns 19 115
Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 65
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
Linux Foundation: Security Problems Threaten 'Golden Age' of Open Source 77
Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' 182
Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base 220
Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux 279
Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel 688
Vigilante Malware Protects Routers Against Other Security Threats 79
Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion 146
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Reliable Linux Laptop? 237
Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? 158
Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux 281
Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro 282
Linux 4.3 Bringing Stable Intel Skylake Support, Reworked NVIDIA Driver 93
Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? 103
Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? 889
Debian Working on Reproducible Builds To Make Binaries Trustable 130
Shuttleworth Says Snappy Won't Replace .deb Linux Package Files In Ubuntu 15.10 232
LILO Bootloader Development To End 135
Linux Kernel 4.2 Released 142
AMD's R9 Fury On Open-Source: Prepare for Disappointment, For Now 43
Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality 747
Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS 167
KDE Plasma 5.4 Released 43
Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 152
Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C 59
Meet Linux's Newest File-System: Bcachefs 132
City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality 394
Linux Foundation Project Will Evaluate Security of Open Source Software 37
KDE Applications 15.08.0 Released 68
Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK 108
Debian Founder: How I Came To Find Linux 136
AMD Still Struggling With Linux Gaming 100
"Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation 157
IBM Launches Linux-Only Mainframes 157
SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend 378
'My Name is C.H.I.P. and I'll Be Your $9 Computer Today' (Video) 111
Kali Linux 2.0 Released 109
Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School 233
Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective 321
Linux Servers' Entropy Pool Too Shallow, Compromising Security 111
Largest DebConf Ever Will Hit Heidelberg In Mid-August 41
Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference 416
Purism Offers Free (as in Freedom) Laptops (Video) 77
Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code 184
On Linux, $550 Radeon R9 Fury Competes With $200~350 NVIDIA GPUs 83
Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support 152
Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds 136
LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland 216
Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files 100
AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Wildly Different Based On Program's Name 114
The Free Software Foundation's Statement On Canonical's Updated Licensing Terms 75
NSA Releases Open Source Security Tool For Linux 105
ARM Support Comes To SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 23
What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong 267
Speed-Ups, Small Fixes Earn Good Marks From Ars For Mint 17.2 69
Calculating the Truck-Factor of Popular Open Source Projects 79
Lenovo Will Sell Ubuntu Laptops In India 77
Linux Foundation's Census Project Ranks Open Source Software At Risk 47
Jolla Spins Off Hardware Business 44
Linux 4.2-rc1 Is One of the Largest Kernel Releases of Recent Times 110
Interviews: Linus Torvalds Answers Your Question 187
First Fedora Image For the MIPS Available For Testing 28
How IKEA Patched Shellshock 154
Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly, Version-Preserving File Sharing For Linux? 212
Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question 383
The Open Container Project and What It Means 54
Ask Slashdot: Keeping Cloud Data Encrypted Without Cross-Platform Pain? 107
Docker and CoreOS Join Together For Open Container Project At Linux Foundation 48
Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements 116
CRYENGINE Finally Lands On Linux 57
Google Criticized For 'Opaque' Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium 85
Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development 355
TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy 182
Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him 323
Ask Slashdot: Feature Requests For Epoch Init System 1.3.0? 119
M0n0wall Fork SmallWall Has First Official Release 34
Pi Stays Sky High In 2015 Hacker SBC Survey 32
Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (Jessie) Officially Released 128
Linux World Domination Creates Shortage of Linux-Skilled Workers 72
Linux Kernel 4.1 Will Be an LTS Release 46
Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements 155
Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business 422
New Freescale I.MX6 SoCs Include IoT-focused UltraLite 24
Red Hat CEO Publishes Open Source Management Memoir 49
Mandriva Goes Out of Business 167
Linux/Moose Worm Targets Routers, Modems, and Embedded Systems 110
Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone 134
Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned 226
Rate These 53 Sub-$200 Hacker SBCs, Win 1 of 20 45
Huawei's LiteOS Internet of Things Operating System Is a Minuscule 10KB 175
KDE Plasma 5 Becomes the Default Desktop of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 60
Linino-Enabled Arduino Yun Shrinks In Size and Cost 42
Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart 347
Proof-of-Concept Linux Rootkit Leverages GPUs For Stealth 67
$9 Open Source Computer Blows Past Crowdfunding Goal 180
Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux 265
Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? 469
Accessibility In Linux Is Good (But Could Be Much Better) 65
Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community 300
Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines 180
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code Preview For Linux, OS X, and Windows 72
Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released 52
KDE Plasma 5.3 Released 53
Imagination To Release Open MIPS Design To Academia 63
Linux 4.1 Bringing Many Changes, But No KDBUS 232
Debian 8 Jessie Released 442
Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd 494
AMD Publishes New 'AMDGPU' Linux Graphics Driver 88
John Hawley Talks About UAV Controls (Video) 20
KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements 64
Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh 209
Linux 4.0 Kernel Released 172
First Alpha of Public Sector Linux Deployment System 84
1+ Year Running Arch Linux On a Lenovo Yoga 2 Chronicled 74
GCC 5.0 To Support OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus, C++14 57
10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds 203
Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run 96
MP3 Backend of Firefox and Thunderbird Found Vulnerable 60
GNOME 3.16 Released 196
How Device Drivers Are Reverse Engineered 27
OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers 362
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? 385
Not Quite Dead: SCO Linux Suit Against IBM Stirs In Utah 170
Linux Might Need To Claim Only ACPI 2.0 Support For BIOS 129
The Role of a Nonprofit In Open Source Development 49
Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available 192
Linux Kernel Adopts 'Code of Conflict' 93
Kali Linux On a Raspberry Pi (A/B+/2) With LUKS Disk Encryption 37
Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS 166
Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux 338
KDE Accepted To Google Summer of Code 2015 53
Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday 765
Red Hat Strips Down For Docker 44
Valve Developed an Open-Source Intel Vulkan GPU Driver For Linux 52
Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare 188
Demand For Linux Skills Rising This Year 94
Linux 4.0 Getting No-Reboot Patching 125
Linux and Multiple Internet Uplinks: a New Tool 80
NVIDIA Fixes Old Compiz Bug 51
Xfce 4.12 Released 91
The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era 199
Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons 264
Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? 260
Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding 95
Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux 66
Torvalds: "People Who Start Writing Kernel Code Get Hired Really Quickly" 130
PC-BSD: Set For Serious Growth? 393
Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System 755
Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release 189
Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump 199
Live Patching Now Available For Linux 117
Elementary OS: Why We Make You Type "$0" 208
Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? 716
New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers 98
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? 136
Xfce Getting a New Version Soon 193
Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps 140
Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release 48
CrunchBang Linux Halts Development 129
Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros 175
Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader 471
Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops 123
Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure 375
Embedded Linux Conference Headlined By Drones 22
Ask Slashdot: GPU of Choice For OpenCL On Linux? 110
Linus Fixes Kernel Regression Breaking Witcher 2 126
Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook 169
User Plea Means EISA Support Not Removed From Linux 189
The Current State of Linux Video Editing 223
Librem: a Laptop Custom-Made For Free/Libre Software 229
Could Tizen Be the Next Android? 243
Ask Slashdot: Can I Trust Android Rooting Tools? 186
Why Run Linux On Macs? 592
Linus On Diversity and Niceness In Open Source 361
AMD Catalyst Is the Broken Wheel For Linux Gaming 160
Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files 329
Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users' 551
Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? 403
SystemD Gains New Networking Features 553
Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC 180
Ask Slashdot: Linux Database GUI Application Development? 264
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases Second Issue CC-BY-SA 19
Sloppy File Permissions Make Red Star OS Vulnerable 105
Big Names Dominate Open Source Funding 32
Linux Controls a Gasoline Engine With Machine Learning 89
Closure On the Linux Lockup Bug 115
Learn Gate-Array Programming In Python and Software-Defined Radio 51
Tips For Securing Your Secure Shell 148
Fluxbox 1.3.6 Released 63
Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? 210
AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Catching Up To and Beating Windows 136
Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc 226
2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are 255
Ringing In 2015 With 40 Linux-Friendly Hacker SBCs 81